“Anderson demonstrates that if one accepts a sham mystery as real, one has stopped or strayed in the search for truth, and truth has survival value.”
Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 94)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
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May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
Richard Hofstadter The Paranoid Style in American Politics
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
Alan M. Dershowitz (1938) American lawyer, author
[Alan, Dershowitz, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303544604576429783247016492.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop, Casey Anthony: The System Worked, The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2011, July 7, 2011] published 2011-07-07
“Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“To search for truth should be the main goal in one's life.”
Mahāprajña (1920–2010) Acharya or the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism
Thought at Sunrise (2007)
Context: To search for truth should be the main goal in one's life. This is a very difficult task. Let us begin by asking what is truth? What is untruth? To make this decision itself is difficult. Once the decision has been made, it is even more difficult to understand the limitations possible even in truth: elements of doubt and illusion. The Ultimate Truth is still far away, even if we are anywhere near relative truth, it should be deemed a great achievement. Those who live by truth sometimes become so dogged in their pursuit that even their truth seems a lie. Without control over passions and practicing neutrality, purity and straightforwardness, do we have a right to seek the truth?
“Absolute honesty is essential in one's search for God (Truth).”
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
7 Absolute Honesty, p. 8.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Context: Absolute honesty is essential in one's search for God (Truth). The subtleties of the Path are finer than a hair. The least hypocrisy becomes a wave that washes one off the Path.
It is your false self that keeps you away from your true Self by every trick it knows. In the guise of honesty this self even deceives itself. For instance your self claims, I love Baba. The fact is, if you really loved Baba you would not be your false self making the self-asserting statement!
John Shelby Spong (1931) American bishop
"Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions," weekly mailing, 2007-SEP-05, as reported on Religious Tolerance.org http://www.religioustolerance.org/reltrue.htm
“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
David Colander (1947) American economist
David Colander, Complexity and the History of Economic Thought, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, p. 6.
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